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: : THE THICK OF THE HUDDLE : : : : ‘Sensation and watchfulness in itself’-a total experience suffused by awareness-is, I believe, what Blake meant by ‘spiritual sensation’; and it is as near as we shall get to a definition of Imagination-the means and instrument by which, in man, that which is creative creates itself. : : -J. Middleton Murry, Shakespeare, 1936. : : Before ultimate silence these poems at home: : : I’ve seen them coming for years--the pace, the tone, : : the notes, the range. Strident life’s raging chatter : : I’ve kept at a distance and so I’ve got fatter. : : Those who come onto my personal stage : : need me somehow or want to engage. : : I rarely seek out neighbours or friends, : : but rejoice in the life He willingly sends. : : Perhaps it’s just choice, a quiet eye : : that broods and sleeps, some inward sigh. : : Perhaps I take the endless words : : that I have gathered like the birds, : : cut out notes here and long bars there, : : a trifle sharp, a trifle too bare. : : A planet swarming with hords and herds, : : teaming with life and plenty of nerds,* : : requires some points of silence and thought, : : some intensest feelings with words sought : : quite explicitly to tell of the tale : : of an ineffable life far beyond the pale. : : And the adventure right here in fine detail, : : fed by some radiance sent in the mail, : : past the chaos streaming through life, : : with a curb and a rudder to cluster the strife : : and the throng from some nethermost fire; : : out of the thick of the huddle beauty springs : : higher and higher and higher and higher! : : Ron Price : : 28 December 1995 : : * An Australian term for a fool. : : :

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